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The Historia Brittonum, compiled a century or two later, preserves even less memory of things Roman. There is some hint of a vetus traditio seniorum.
Senectus was commonly reckoned as beginning at 60; but in § 60 Cicero includes in senectus the aetas seniorum, and probably intended to include it here. In Tusc. 1, 34 Cic. reckons three ages pueritia adulescentia senectus as here; below in 74, four periods, or five. QUAMVIS: = quantumvis.
The Lady who desires me for her Sake to end one of my Papers with the following Letter, I am persuaded, thinks such a Perseverance very impracticable. Husband, Stay more at home. The Colonel whom you charged me to see no more, is in Town. Martha Housewife. No. 179. Tuesday, September 25, 1711. Addison. 'Centuriae seniorum agitant expertia frugis: Celsi praetereunt austera Poemata Rhamnes.
You'll find it in Migne's 'Patrologia Latina, in the volume which contains the 'Verba Seniorum. I can't quote the exact words at the moment, but they are to this effect: 'If you can't stop the wind from blowing, neither can you prevent evil thoughts from entering your mind. I daresay the thing that occurred to you wasn't actually evil in the sense which the hermit meant, but it is pretty sure to have been foolish; and that, for all practical purposes, is the same thing.
And the man told the second in charge, and the second told the first, and the first laid the matter before the assembled Korps. Thereupon the whole Seniorum Conventus sat in solemn committee upon this war-worn nose, and decided that its owner need fight no more.
Iuventus is usually the age from 17 to 45, during which men were liable to be called on for active service. From 45 to 60 is the aetas seniorum, the period during which citizens in early Rome might be called out for the defence of the city, but not for active service.
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